Week 7 – Animation Introduction

This week we finally got to start animating, with the assignment of animating 3 bouncing balls, at different weights. This was my first time animating, and my first time using adobe animate, so there was a lot to take in. I very loosely used this for help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY3TrpiUOqE&ab_channel=EleanorHazael

I started animating at 24 fps for the first ball, and it came out pretty smooth, but then I did the other two balls without watching them through, and had to lower the fps to compensate for their speed, making the final video a little choppy, but I think the final product is decent for my first time.

I probably should have read chapter 4 of Richard Williams Animator’s survival guide before finishing the animation, as there was a couple things I missed that I could’ve picked up on, but there’s always next time

Some of our group met up on a discord call on Tuesday to try and organise our animation sequence, and we kind of figured out the ending, but we are still deliberating on how linear we want to tell the story, as it limits some of the ideas. We decided it should definitely be in consecutive order though, so it isn’t too confusing. I was hoping to animate a chase/ hiding scene, but I’m not sure the best way to fit it into the sequence yet. I’ll sketch out some storyboards and see what works best.

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